verb
Jezici (5)
Engleski
EngleskiSistem
Alternative forms
Etimologija
From Srednji Engleski verbe, directly from Latinski verbum (“word, verb”) and possibly or reinforced by Stari Francuski verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Dubleti of verve and word.
Pronunciation
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- 1530 jul 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] [1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes […]
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- (figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
- (programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321:
- You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.
- 2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
- The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.
Usage notes
Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.
Quotations
- 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 221:
- Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
Hyponyms
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
- abstract verb
- action verb
- adjective verb
- adverb
- auxiliary verb
- boot verb
- catenative verb
- concrete verb
- control verb
- copular verb
- coverb
- defective verb
- direct verb
- ditransitive verb
- dynamic verb
- ergative verb
- finite verb
- full verb
- helper verb
- helping verb
- impersonal verb
- indeterminate verb
- intradirective verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- labile verb
- lexical verb
- light verb
- linking verb
- main verb
- modal verb
- monotransitive verb
- negative verb
- non-finite verb
- particle verb
- phrasal prepositional verb
- phrasal verb
- prepositional verb
- preterite-present verb
- preverb
- progressive verb
- pronominal verb
- pro-verb
- psych verb
- reflexive verb
- regular verb
- reporting verb
- separable verb
- shoe verb
- stative verb
- strong verb
- subject-verb agreement
- substantive verb
- transitive verb
- vector verb
- verbal
- verbal complement
- verbal noun
- verbal regency
- verb form
- verb-framed
- verb-framing
- verb inflection
- verbless clause
- verb-object
- verb of motion
- verb phrase
- verb tense
- weak verb
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state
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Verb
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
- (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
- 1993 januar 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
- I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
- 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, page 8:
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- 2005 oktobar 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8:
- In English, verbing nouns is okay
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
- 1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series:
- For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
- 1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
- 1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse:
- The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
Conjugation
Quotations
- Za navode korišćenja ovog termina, vidite Citati:verb.
See also
Anagrams
- brev (alphagram berv)
Breton
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb m (plural verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Jezici (5)
Rumunski
Rumunski
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)
Declension
Švedski
ŠvedskiNoun
verb n
- (grammar) verb
Declension
| Declension of verb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | verb | verbet | verb | verben |
| Genitive | verbs | verbets | verbs | verbens |
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
Anagrams
- brev (alphagram berv)
Veps
Etymology
Noun
verb